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Jarek W (fizolof)

One of the players in our game continued to use the enlist even though all four of his tokens had been moved. He was paying the cost and collecting the reward (gold) for performing the action even though the action produced no result.

After discussing it, since moving the token was a condition of the action, his being unable to do that negated the action.

One of the players in our game continued to use the enlist even though all four of his tokens had been moved. He was paying the cost and collecting the reward (gold) for performing the action even though the action produced no result.

After discussing it, since moving the token was a condition of the action, his being unable to do that negated the action.

Can anyone clarify?

Thanks in advance.

As stated in the rules, and throughout the forums, you do not have to take all the benefits of an action. All benefits (except for stars) are optional.

This means you can continue to take an enlist action even after all four tokens have been moved, you would still receive the cash and the uncovered enlist bonus too.

This applies with all other bottom row actions as well. You can continue to take deploy actions after all of your mechs are built, upgrade actions after all of your upgrades are complete and build actions after all your buildings are built. When you do, you still get the cash and the enlist bonuses if they are uncovered.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but you could pay the cost to get the addition benefit even if you don't take the main action benefit. A bit of a niche situation, but if your bottom action was deploy, but you didn't want to put a mech out - for example where you had an objective where you needed to have no mechs out, or were going for an achievement - you could pay the cost for the mech and then take just the bonus. You might want to do this if you were flush with metal and wanted the coins.

As I said: quite an obscure, but not an impossible, situation that might arise.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but you could pay the cost to get the addition benefit even if you don't take the main action benefit. A bit of a niche situation, but if your bottom action was deploy, but you didn't want to put a mech out - for example where you had an objective where you needed to have no mechs out, or were going for an achievement - you could pay the cost for the mech and then take just the bonus. You might want to do this if you were flush with metal and wanted the coins.

Yes, it is just as feasible to decline to take one of the benefits of an action because you don't want to as because you can't.